22 Jul 1893
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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1893
Page
1
The article extols Americus Georgia as a thriving city with rising population, extensive public works, and strong climate. It highlights peaches and diverse crops, artesian wells, modern utilities, a large hotel, a fine courthouse, and a flourishing business district. It portrays the city as healthy, temperate, and competitively priced for potential buyers and investors.
A rustic ad touts Gold and Silver flour substitutes and flour brands with prices and a claim to sell quality goods by contents, not names. It promotes Triumph flour as finest, Obelisk rice, and discounts of 20 to 60 percent on fancy and staple groceries at THE SPOT CASH STORE, urging customers to buy by product, not sack art.
A shooting at the Ailsy on the A. and M. railroad left ex-pro police agent Peterson wounded by buckshot and two unknown robbers fled. A posse and express company detectives pursued the attackers as citizens gathered, the safe untouched, and Peterson’s recovery deemed hopeful though serious. Also reported is the Sunday School Convention of Colored Baptists in Riley with officers elected led by President Rev. R. Carter.
A Georgia supreme court session in a 7a0thy district courthouse reestablished whipping as punishment. Sam Harris, a ten year old colored boy, was found guilty of feloniously taking a nickel from 1887 and was whipped under orders resembling ancient judicial ritual, with his mother enforcing the sentence in a nearby room. The proceeding signals a controversial revival of corporal punishment in the era.
A broad set of late 19th century items from Georgia including the death of Gen. John G. Dence of Winchester Va a noted Confederate veteran with battles at Sharpsburg Manassas and around Richmond and a report on a Washington Ga speaking event by Tom Watcko amid crowd reaction and broader chatter on World Fair rates from the south. The column records tax and railroad matters references to Milton Candler and Bibb county tax disputes a queer business by Mrs Helen Witham and other local affairs from Atlanta Boston and Cuthbert with county alliance resolutions on silver coinage and banking policy plus sports notes on a game at Cuthbert and a piece on the Home Newspaper philosophy.
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